Most Favorited Questions of All Time (24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, 12 months)
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What cognitive biases should everyone know?
What are the five cognitive biases that everyone should know? [more inside]
Marriage hacks
You used to have a good, stable marriage. Now you have a fantastic marriage -- the kind of marriage where you are happy to wake up in the morning and see your spouse. How did you get to that point? [more inside]
Life changing movies
What are some movies that have either drastically changed the way you view the world or changed the way you live your life? [more inside]
The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.
What are your "secret weapon" conversation topics? These are the topics that never fail to engage a group of people, are fun, interesting, long-lasting, and non-offensive? Examples inside. [more inside]
Only Six More Weeks?!
Weird-in-a-good-way-filter: I need suggestions for online stores/catalogs for Christmas Shopping! [more inside]
Help me make some delicious soups!
It's that time of year again...it's getting cold and I'm craving soup more and more. The only problem is I'm sick of canned soup and I'd rather make most of it homemade. Lay your best soup recipes on me, ingredients/prep the works!
Any type of soup accepted! Hot, cold, lukewarm! Chicken, cream-based, potato leek, broth-based etc. I want to start a good collection of new recipes to try!
I need your best cookie recipe ever!!!! No, seriously, EVER.
best-cookie-recipe-ever-filter: I need your best, most impressive, most "wowing" when someone puts it in his/her mouth cookie recipe that you've got. Yes, I know there's a bazillion cookie recipes lurking in this AskMe/Metafilter machine. Which is part of the problem. Taste over looks. [more inside]
The time-traveller's advice: 30-year-old edition
My turn! Citizens of Metafilter: What advice would you give to your thirty-year-old self? [more inside]
Time Vacuum (or Productivity Fail) Web Sites
I'm putting together a list of some of my favourite time-vacuum websites. What I mean by that is a website that you can visit and then lose half your day to, by the sheer amount of great stuff to read, watch, play, listen to, learn, etc etc.
They could be news pages, or a site where there is always something new to see, or maybe just a database that you can lose hours mining for interesting information.
I'm sure we all have stuff like this in our bookmarks, so I'm turning to the hive mind for help to expand my list of really interesting sites. [more inside]
Top 5 and Why
What are your top 5 websites and why? Excluding metafilter (of course). [more inside]
The Re-Readables
What book(s) can you read over and over and over again? [more inside]
Say this, not that
Recently I discovered some great phrases that work much better than the standard response to a situation, and was wondering if anyone had any others. [more inside]
What are the simple concepts that have most helped you understand the world?
What are the simple concepts that have most helped you understand the world? [more inside]
Pretty me up, on the cheap!
Any hidden gems in the world of drugstore makeup? [more inside]
Books that changed your world view
I'm going to spend the next year reading a diverse set of books to change how I see the world. What books have changed your world view? [more inside]
Uh oh, I think I just seized the day.
What is your favorite motivational phrase? [more inside]
What is the Zenni Optical of things other than glasses?
Recently discovered and fell in love with Zenni Optical, and now I'm wondering if there are other things that are "best kept secrets" that provide incredible value. [more inside]
Book Club for Life
I'm 30. Each year until I'm 60 I want to read a masterpiece by an author the same age as I am when s/he wrote it. Help compile my list. [more inside]
How can I make myself do stuff?
I can't make myself do anything. I've never been able to. I want to accomplish so much, I have goals, but for some reason, I just can't make myself do all the things I know I'm capable of. How can I turn this around? Is there a name for it? What should I do? [more inside]
Worth every cent!
Name a purchase of yours that was worth every penny! [more inside]